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Dortmund weather

North Rhine-Westphalia · 588,462 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:51

Partly cloudy
13°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 13°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
13 km/h
Humidity
72 %
Pressure
1030 hPa
Clouds
80 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:18 Set 17:09 Day 9 h 50 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind ↑ WNW 4 km/h
Gusts 13 km/h
Humidity 74 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
11°9°
Feels like 11°
Wind ↑ E 3 km/h
Humidity 89 %
19:00
Partly cloudy
11°
E 3
22:00
Clear sky
9°
E 3

Dortmund forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
0°4°8°11°15°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed9°2°Thu 29 Oct: max 13° · min 9° · normal 8.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 5° · normal 8.8°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 5° · normal 8.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 11° · min 6° · normal 8.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 8° · min 3° · normal 8.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 9° · min 5° · normal 8.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 9° · min 2° · normal 8.2°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu0°8°15°13°1°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Dortmund climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 38 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 49 min in late December.

Freezing nights are typical in January only (0 °C on average).

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 62 mm and 96 mm on average.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 11 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan4 °C0 °C89 mm
Feb6 °C1 °C75 mm
Mar9 °C3 °C77 mm
Apr14 °C6 °C62 mm
May17 °C8 °C74 mm
Jun21 °C12 °C81 mm
Jul23 °C14 °C96 mm
Aug23 °C14 °C93 mm
Sep19 °C11 °C81 mm
Oct14 °C8 °C80 mm
Nov9 °C4 °C81 mm
Dec5 °C1 °C94 mm
Whole year14 °C7 °C980 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.51° N, 7.47° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Dortmund: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.517µg/m³
PM1029µg/m³
O₃27µg/m³
NO₂31µg/m³
SO₂4µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Dortmund

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Dortmund, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Dortmund

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:28 Set 23:03
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Berlin); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Dortmund

Curious about the weather in Dortmund on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Dortmund weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 13 °C (feels like 13 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 9 °C to 13 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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